Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

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posse conscendere, quod minime euenit. Nam magister Iohannes de Chy
um consecratur ⁊ ad ecclesiam Glasguensem regendam a latere domini
pape dirigitur. Ipse uero R’ ad episcopatum ad quem fuerat // consecratus
emittitur. Willelmus abbas de Neubotil pastoralem curam reliquit.
Ad quam regendam dompnus Adam cellerarius de Melros in die Sancti
Vincentii accessit.






[A]nno domini moccolxo Magister Iohannes episcopus Glasguensis pe
tita a rege Scocie licentia ⁊ accepta, eius terram ingre
ditur, ⁊ sic ei presentatur a quo benig⊗ne susceptus, ad sedem suam
transmittitur, ibique sollempniter intronizatur. Item abbas A’ de Bal
murinach regimen quod pro infirmitate diuitius tenere non potuit
successori suo scilicet Ade eiusdem domi monacho dereliquit. Abbas
etiam Patricius Kalcouie se ipsum demisit, ⁊ Henricus de Lambeden ei
successit. Obiit Uualter Donelmensis episcopus, cui successit Robertus
eiusdem domus monachus. Nata est etiam in Anglia primogenita regis Scotie
nomine Margareta. Michael abbas de Sancto Seruano cessit, ⁊ Iohannes
eius monachus successit.



Anno1 Domini mocco septuagesimo vii fuit yems [it]a dure animalium pre[ dialium ?] dillapsionis yemale tempus [ut ?] non fuit uisum. Preterea [… … …] fere per Angliam ⁊ Scotiam [… …] pluribus uix remansit arment [… …] pluribus […] . In una domo ordinis Cisterciensi[s] obierunt infra dimidium annum duo millia ⁊ quinquaginta armentorum animalium exceptis bidentibus.
//electus

Notes

1 JT: The text here is faded beyond legibility, though enough letter forms are visible to allow for identification of Scribal profile 109. However, the Andersons managed to make out some of it ‘with the aid of a special photograph’. This follows the Andersons’ text, as presented in their edition: Andersons, The Chronicle of Melrose, p. lxiii.
But by no means did this come about. For Master John of Cheam was consecrated and sent from the pope’s presence to rule the church of Glasgow. This R[obert], to be sure, was consecrated and sent off to the bishopric to which he had been // . William, abbot of Newbattle, resigned his pastoral charge. Dom Adam the cellarer of Melrose undertook that rule on St Vincent’s Day.






In the 1260th year of the Lord, Master John, bishop of Glasgow, requested and received licence from the king of Scotland; he entered his [the king of Scots’] land; and thus he [John] was presented to him [the king of Scots], by whom he was gracio⊗usly received; he was conveyed to his seat, and there solemnly enthroned. A[dam], abbot of Balmerino, gave up the rule, which he was no longer able to maintain because of illness, to his successor, that is, Adam, a monk of the same house. Moreover, Abbot Patrick of Kelso demitted himself, and Henry of Lambden succeeded him. Walter, bishop of Durham, died; Robert, a monk of the same house, succeeded him. The first-born daughter of the king of Scotland was born in England; she was named Margaret. Michael, abbot of St Serf, departed and John his monk succeeded.



In1 the 1277th year of the Lord, winter was so severe […] winter time has not been seen. Besides […] almost throughout England and Scotland [… .] In one house of the Cistercian Order, more than two thousand and fifty of the herd livestock, except for sheep, died within half a year.
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Notes

1 JT: The text here is faded beyond legibility, though enough letter forms are visible to allow for identification of Scribal profile 109. However, the Andersons managed to make out some of it ‘with the aid of a special photograph’. The translation is based on the Andersons’ text, as presented in their edition: Andersons, The Chronicle of Melrose, p. lxiii.